Mike Dragon

One of my favorite songs from one of my top-favorite musicians. <3

If the cars on MP had a promo ad when they were released, this could have been it.

Kudos to whoever catches the pun I made there.

I've done a delivery to Tucson then I decided, as per usual, to hang out and chill by the race track a little. Little did I know this was going to be track day so I spent the following three hours racing around the track with some random people. It was fun.

For whatever reason I decided to deliver through Death Road (Brussels-Hannover). Though I had many near-misses and several moments in which I had to "throw" the truck off road, I am I surprised that I actually managed to finish the trip with 0 damage to the trailer and the cab.

Every time I DON'T want to drive through Death Road, all the loads I want to take will always have their suggested route going through that road. Every time. But when I DO want to drive through Death Road, I can never find a single load that will suggest that road as a route. Every. Single. Time.

Hmmm....

I like the new differential lock feature!  Should be very helpful in some cases when the truck gets somehow stuck somewhere and can't get out because some of the wheels aren't spinning to give it traction. I just tested with my Dragon Pete on a road side hill and a ditch. I could tell the difference! I also love the fact that we finally have more refueling spots in gas stations. Not only it is more realistic but for MP, that will be a huge aide when it comes to sharing pumps with other players. The new weight station sensor on the windshield is also a neat thing. I can't tell about the trailer axle lifting, though. The two trailers I took didn't respond to it so I don't know if those two in particular simply do not have liftable axles or if ATS doesn't have that particular feature. Or could be just a bug. This is the first beta for this update, after all.

D'you know what I should REALLY do? Organize my internet favorites (bookmarks). Why? Because I have a buttload of links accumulated and disorganized, dating from as long ago as the days when my only computer was the first PC my father ever bought for the family and it ran Windows 98, all the way back in the year 2001. Yup, that's right. My current internet favorites have been migrated over and over and over ever since I started using computers, back when my operating system was Windows 98 and Windows XP was something that only the most powerful computers could run. 

I simply have been adding new stuff to it over the years. What I might need to do is export it all to a file/folder then delete everything from my browsers and just re-add what is current and what I actually want to keep from those old links. So much work ahead of me if I do decide to do that. @.@

That moment when you write down a report on a user that ISN'T currently banned but right before you click on "Submit Report" he gets banned and the time you spent rendering and uploading the video evidence and writing the description of the report goes to waste.

Oh well.... might as well go ahead and share the video, I guess.

I have never taken a load this light before. o.o

RIP kiddo.

Some green screen testing on Gmod.

Because everyone is saying what was their first Nokia (not in here, though), I too will say which one was mine.

My first Nokia was a Nokia 5120, followed by a Nokia 3220 (I love that phone so much! <3 Too bad it wasn't GSM), Nokia 2300 and lastly, the Nokia 5530, which after years was replaced by my awesome Lumia 640 XL that, though branded as a Microsoft phone, brings the legacy Nokia's quality within it. And I still own each and every single one of these devices. :3

New Nokia 3310? I saw a couple videos of it. I am kind of tempted to buy one when possible but I am slightly disappointed. I expected an interface more similar to that of the original. And since it has a internet browser, at least WiFi connectivity. Not that I would use it to browse the internet all day long like kids do these days, of course. Computers exist for a reason, kids. :\ 


*elderly voice* Back in my day if we wanted to go on the internet we'd open Internet Explorer 6 on dial-up and we were HAPPY WITH IT!!!

This is exactly what it seems to be.

Gentlemen, I have an important announcement to make.

*Ahem*

Ever wondered how bunnies really reproduce? Well, wonder no more!

Here's two of the three reports of today.

REPORT 65's still exporting to be edited, rendered and uploaded.

As part of my testing of the new settings of my screen recorder, I went on Death Road to check how smooth the transition between Record Start and Stop would be in an environment of low framerate. Previously the game would freeze for a brief second sometimes but so far, it's been really smooth! No freezes whatsoever!  The downside of going there to do this test? I have to file a new report, now. :\

I absolutely love these new rims!

Too bad only the owners of the Raven Design DLC will be able to see them on MP once support is added. There aren't really that many of us around, these days.  Not when you take into consideration how MANY more people joined after the event that awarded this DLC, years ago.

I just got my 750HP Volvo, a trailer, went on Death Road at high speed, all on-screen mirrors on the screen, the Route Advisor GPS on the screen while having my dashboard GPS ALSO active, didn't look to the sides before changing lanes or crossing intersections, entered a gas station on the way, kept on looking all over the place with cam 2, honked non-stop at everyone like a lunatic, kept my headlights, high beams, hazards and beacons on, bumped into everything due to high speed and not caring about looking around me or paying attention to the abnormal amount of mirrors on my face, didn't keep my lane, overtook everyone I could because I am super important and people must give me passage and because I am super manly and I need to prove it to everybody else in the world, I blocked anyone who attempted to overtake me. Yeah, I had to show them who's boss, baby! That sucker in that crappy Iveco... Hah! What an idiot! Buy a REAL truck, next time, you stupid!

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I actually did all that. But on single player, obviously. I'm not insane! XD I tried to simulate the usual behavior of many players (obviously I am talking about the bad ones) to see if I can understand to any extend, the way they "think". And you know what? I felt like a complete retarded imbecile. But the question is: Did I learn anything from this experiment? The answer is simple: Absolutely not! I still can't comprehend how these people seem enjoy doing all that crap. And on purpose! It just makes NO SENSE AT ALL!!! It's not fun to drive recklessly. Not at all.

It kind of makes me want to repeat this experiment but make a video out of it. And make it a video in which I mock the players who behave like that on Truckers MP's roads. Not just for the sake of mocking, though, but mostly for comedy purposes. Let me know what you think.

I changed some settings on my screen recording software and to test them out I decided to go on ATS. Firstly I went to somewhere remote so I could have peace and quiet to run a few audio tests (including voice). After the audio tests proved successful, I wanted to test framerate stability, so to do that I put my Scout on the road and drove as fast as possible to see how well the program would handle the capture of the graphics at a fast speed (it fared really well!) as I alternated between different camera views. But you know what usually happens when you combine a Scout with high speed, right? (Btw, the reason I chose the Scout on MP rather than a truck on SP is simply because they can reach their top speed the quickest.)

Just for your information: I kept the Players List on-screen at all times when speed just so I would know if there was anyone nearby. If there were, I would slow down to a safe speed to avoid any accidents involving other players. After all, the thing I least want is to cause an accident. Not knowing if there was people nearby could be dangerous, considering the brakes the Scout has. I did not want to accidentally run into someone, somehow (I was switching cameras, after all, and constantly looking at the frames counter). So for safety I kept the list open. I am glad to inform that there were no accidents. Well, none other than my own, that is. This was a controlled experiment. Since I could tell if there was someone nearby, I could slow down to a safe speed so absolutely no one has ever been in any sort of danger because of my speeding.

Ok, so for absolutely no reason or rhyme besides the fact that I can and was curious, I went on to search for the latest person to register on Truckers MP and I believe I have found it!

As of the time of this status post, the last person to join Truckers MP was this fellow, who joined today:

Change his/her ID in the URL to just a single number higher and the system won't find any registered user.

So welcome aboard, you person I don't know!

Guys. Seriously...

And yet I keep get invitations from people I have never even seen before. Let alone know them, obviously. :\

Finished crossing Death Road. I won't mention any names, obviously, but there are so many that I could swear are legitimate retarded. :\

Anyway... stopped on the second gas station after DR towards Scandinavia. Gotta dash back to work. Here's the outcome of my trip through that place.

Just kidding. This is the real picture.

And yes, I recorded a bunch of stuff. Gotta sort it all out later.